But why must everything always have a practical application?

Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.

— Jacques Hadamard

Humility is practical application of knowledge.

— Radhanath Swami

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

— Heinrich Hertz

There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its…

— Lord Kelvin

But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“But why must everything always have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will…

— James Russell Lowell

What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable…

— Anonymous

I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application

— Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins…

— Barton Gellman

“My motto is: if its cold outside wear whatever you need to keep warm”

— Michael Primi

There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies.

— Karamo Brown

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

— Joel Osteen

I am a practical girl.

— Divyanka Tripathi

There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are…

— Martin Jacques